Lucien Steil

Prof. Lucien Steil studied architecture and urbanism in Paris and Vincennes and graduated as an Architecte DPLG in 1980. He worked at the Archives d'Architecture Moderne in Brussels with Maurice Culot and Leon Krier until 1982. Between 1982 and 1986 he was practising in Luxembourg mostly on commissions for the Ministry of Public Works. A Visiting Critic at Oregon School of Design in Portland from 1986 to 1988 he returned set up a practice in Luxembourg until 1997 with Irish architect Colum Mulhern. The practice produced a wide range of projects in sustainable traditional urbanism and traditional architecture and won various awards in national and international urban competitions. From 1997 to 2007 Prof. Steil taught as a visiting professor at Prince of Wales' Urban Design Task Force in Potsdam and Berlin and with various universities including Oregon School of Design, University of Miami, Politechnical University of Puerto-Rico, University of Bologna, Universidade Catolica di Portogallo, and Universite de Luxembourg. He joined the Prince's Foundation in 2007 where he worked on research and projects of sustainable, traditional urbanism and architecture until 2008. Since 2007 he is lecturing on ecological planning and architecture with the Istituto Nazionale di Bioarchitettura (INBAR) in Italy and has been appointed as Scientific Director of the INBAR's Frosinone (Southern Lazio) section. Prof. Steil has been actively involved in the cause of sustainable, ecological, traditional urbanism and architecture for which he has both argued in newspapers, essays and lectures, and which has become very central to his teaching and design practice. He has been instrumental to the creation of Council for European Urbanism (CEU) and has been relentlessly networking between the U.S. and European professionals engaged in New Urbanism and Traditional Architecture. Since 2001 he has developed several websites (Katarxis) promoting ecological urbanism and sustainable architecture and has created an international non-profit organization to teach, implement and promote that purpose, Katarxis Urban Workshops ASBL.

Organization of various International Urban Design Workshops in Luxembourg in the context of Luxembourg, European Capital of Culture 2007/ University of Luxembourg, Bauhaus, Technical University Delft, University College Dublin, University of Miami (Ohio), etc. (Luxembourg, 2007)

Urban Design Workshop with the University of Bologna: Civitas & Universitas  in Esch-sur-Alzette, (Luxembourg, 2007)

Co-organizer and Curator of the Exhibition of the New School of Viseu  exhibiting three years of work of this new school of traditional architecture and urbanism. (Viseu 2004)

Co-organizer of the CEU conference Architectural Teaching in the Age of Globalism  at the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Viseu (Portugal), 2004

Co-organization of First Euro-Councils leading to the foundation of CEU (Bruges 2003/Stockholm 2003)

Recent Publications

Co-Edition with Ali Sagharchi of New Palladians , a selection of Contemporary Classicists, and Traditional Architects and Urbanists to be published end of 2009 (Artmedia UK)

Regular contribution of scientific articles and essays on architecture and urbanism in professional publications and books since 1985